One world … one telephone: iridium, one look at the making of a global age

History and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-324

  Collins, Martin ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular Telephony; Communications Satellites; Globalism; Iridium; Motorola; Multinational Corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016486341     PISSN: 07341512     EISSN: 14772620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07341510500205449     Document Type: Article

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